Sea Ice Observations from the Lawrence M. Gould - LMG01-06 (GLOBEC)
These data describe pack ice characteristics in the Antarctic sea ice zone. These data are in the ASPeCt format.
National program: United States Vessel: Gould Dates in ice: 27 Jul 2001 - 26 Aug 2001 Observers: Chris Fritsen, Sarah Marschall, Jeramie Memmott, Sharon Stammerjohn, Bruce Elder, Kerry Claffey, Shonna Dovel, Angela Gibson
Summary of voyage track: 27/7 Ice edge at approx 65S, 64W 27/7 - 26/8 Ship track focussed on the western side of the Peninsula 26/8 Ice observations stopped at Palmer station (Note - the NBP was in the same region at the same time - NP070801)
The fields for this dataset are: SEA ICE CONCENTRATION SEA ICE FLOE SIZE SEA ICE SNOW COVER SEA ICE THICKNESS SEA ICE TOPOGRAPHY SEA ICE TYPE RECORD DATE TIME LATITUDE LONGITUDE OPEN WATER TRACK SNOW THICKNESS SNOW TYPE SEA TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE WIND VELOCITY WIND DIRECTION FILM COUNTER FRAME COUNTER FOR FILM VIDEO RECORDER COUNTER VISIBILITY CODE CLOUD WEATHER CODE COMMENTS
Data and resources
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Download point for sea ice softwareHTML Open
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Download point for the data - log files, postscript files, excel files.HTML Open
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ASPECT websiteHTML Open
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Download the ASPECT Report - A Technique for Making Ship-Based Observations of Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness and CharacteristicsHTML Open
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Readme file containing instructions on how to use the log files and software.HTML Open
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Citation reference for this metadata record and datasetHTML Open
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PNG Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2001-07-27 – 2001-08-26 |
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| Date (publication) | 2002-05-21 |
| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | This metadata record is publicly available. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |